Summary

He wakes up in a crater, encased in a high-tech suit of armor, with no idea who he is or how he get there. The voice in his ear tells him that he’s Tony Stark and he’s a hero… If that’s true, why does he have to run away from the ‘good guys’? The more he learns, the more he starts to think there’s a better way to go about doing things. And, really, who better to help him take down HYDRA than the Avengers? He just has to convince them isn’t not a plot to kill them first.

Summary

“You’re in an alternate universe,” Magic Man said calmly, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.The faceplate flipped up.“I’m in a what,”“Alternate Universe,”Tony blinked a few times, considering what Magic Man had said. Logically it made sense. No Steve Rogers, he only recognized half of the Avengers, they knew Frank Castle as the Punisher, JARVIS wasn’t responding to him, and they had no idea who he was.“How do I get back?”--Tony Stark lives in a universe without James Rhodes.James Rhodes lives in a universe without Tony Stark.A white mist forces Tony into Rhodey's universe and then rips him away all too soon, and Tony will do whatever it takes to get back to the universe where Rhodey is.

Summary

Following the events at the Opening Ceremony of the Stark Expo, Tony has a new lease on life. He thinks he finally might be getting used to life in 2009, even.

Of course, time waits for no one. It has certainly never waited for him, and it's high time that he began to properly reacquaint himself with old faces and familiar organizations. Easier said than done, perhaps.

Summary

When she died, she didn't expect to live again. Normal people only get one life. But her life has never been normal. And neither is the new world she is born into.

Everyone has a Heart Song. That melody in the back of your head that ties you to your Soulmate.

They say the Pokémon who choose to bond with you take you a step closer to your Soulmate. But only those who have more than two Pokémon are considered Special. They're the ones who will one day change the world. Who will bring the world into a new age of Prosperity and Peace.

That's the way the World's always been. But for one...its different...too much like a fairytale...until it's not.

For Penelope Parker, this World is full of new rules and new dangers but the Basics? ...Those haven't changed.

Summary

So Jarvis is the one who pulls her up onto her feet, presses a tool into one hand and a book into the other and tells her to create. Tells her that if the numbers and the shapes and images in her mind hurt so bad then she should build them, should give them form so that they can finally leave her alone.

Jarvis is the one who finally teaches her how to breathe.

Or

Toni Stark grows up with the tale of Icarus swirling in the back of her mind. Instead of taking it as a precautionary tale about hubris and overreaching she decides it's more about the limitations of wax.

Years later when she builds herself wings of her own she makes sure to build them out of better material.

Summary

Tony and Bruce have been together six months, when something Bruce does triggers memories in Tony that he never wanted. Tony is not good at dealing with his feelings, but Bruce does his best to help him through it. Eventually Bruce confides in the team. Then someone from Tony's past returns to make things worse...

"It wasn't anything really, Tony knew that Bruce would never hurt him. But…but those words…they were so close to the other words, those words that he heard in his nightmares, spoken in a smooth voice, by hot breath in his ear tinged with the smell of cigars and large hands holding him down. Bruising him. Forcing him."

Summary

When Natasha Antonia Stark was born on May 27, 1970, she was already a disappointment to her father. It was out of her control, but she was certainly going to be punished for it the rest of her life.*****Thrust into a world with almost nobody by her side, Toni Stark has to fight her way to success. When they knock her down, she has to get back up. When they burn her to the ground, she builds an iron armor and rises from the ashes.

Summary

With eyes the color of whiskey and lips painted crimson, she stands at the podium and bares her teeth, watching as the world ignores her warnings. She'll take no prisoners, not in this war the the world foolishly declared on her family. "My brother may be Death's Merchant, but darlin', I'm his motherfuckin' Reaper."